X-FI Sound Stuttering in Windows 7

I have an X-Fi Extreme Music PCI card and am experiencing weird audio stuttering/looping in Windows 7 RC. I've had similar problems with other creative cards and setups through the years, but this is particularly bad and interferes with gameplay. It seems to occur most often during cutscenes and the like.
Big problem apps so far have been Batman Arkham Asylum and Need for Speed Shift.
The rest of my setup is:
CPU: Intel Core i7 920
Motherboard: MSI X58 Pro-E
Memory: 2 gigs OCZ RAM
Video Card: GeForce GTX 295/GeForce GTX 8800 (For Phys-X)
Dri'ves: 2 SATA dri'ves
Has anyone else here experienced (and hopefully resolved) any similar issues? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

& Are you using DDLi've/DTS Interacti've encoding? I had some problems on and off with my PCI version only after going X58 in SLI, but one thing that helped for me was reducing sampling rate in Vista/Win7 sound properties to 44. kHz instead of 48 or 96 kHz. Most games are still 44. and apparently the clipping/stuttering can occur when the X-Fi tries upsampling.

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